Archive for 'routes'

Apr201116

Assume you have a CitiesController with just one action capital_city, which doesn’t need any of the RESTful actions. I set up a custom route for this one action. The capital_city action returns the xml like the following, for example: Here is what the entry in the routes.rb file looks like: Your controller may look something […]

Jun201023

To see how an external request would map to your internal path: Sample: To reload routes.rb if you made changes to it: ActionController::Routing::Routes.reload —- To generate a path use generate method:

Sep200923

There are lots methods in Rails where the last argument is a Hash. Sometimes the same Hash is passed into more than one method, causing you to repeat yourself. For example, when using validation helpers in your models, you may be doing something like this: Using with_options within a Model: Notice, :on => create is […]